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How Blockchains Increase Artificial Responsibility

Adam Kolber

There has been an explosion of articles in the popular press about the dangers of artificial intelligence (‘AI’). Some fear that machines with human-like intelligence could someday develop goals at...

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The Crypto Puzzle

Dan Awrey, Faculty of Law

One of the central predictions of the law and finance literature is that strong investor protection laws will promote the development of strong markets. This prediction rests on the observation that...

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Ignorance, Debt and Cryptocurrencies: The old and the new in the law and economics of concurrent currencies

Hossein Nabilou | André Prüm

Decentralized, permissionless and blockchain-based cryptocurrencies and their underlying technology are said to have as transformative an impact on value as the invention of the internet had on...

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Crypto-Securities Regulation: ICOs, Token Sales and Cryptocurrencies under EU Financial Law

Philipp Hacker | Chris Thomale

Cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin and ethereum, have not only risen to public attention as novel means of payments. Rather, as we explain in a recent article, the current hype is fueled by financial...

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Legal Challenges of Initial Coin Offerings (ICO)

Iris Barsan

Initial Coin Offerings (ICO), a term intentionally mirroring Initial Public Offerings (IPO), seem to be the new hype of the virtual currency community leading to an all-time high of the bitcoin of...

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Corporate Governance for Complex Cryptocurrencies

Philipp Hacker

The Bitcoin blockchain has just forked into two rivaling chains; the same split happened to the Ethereum blockchain after its hard fork of July 2016. The development of these, and other,...

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SEC Confirms That Some Initial Coin Offerings Are Illegal Unregistered Securities Offerings

Davis Polk

In a much-anticipated action, on July 25 the SEC issued a Section 21(a) report of its investigation into an offering of digital tokens by “The DAO,” an unincorporated virtual organization. Though...

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How Blockchain Technology Will Impact the Digital Economy

Christian Catalini

The Platform of the Future? The survival of any organization depends on its ability to outperform competitors and marketplaces in attracting and rewarding talent, ideas and capital. As communication...

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Financial Regulation

Blockchain: A Polish Perspective

Noerr

Recent events across the EU, and elsewhere in the world, expose growing attempts at implementing blockchain technology. This, combined with investment dynamics in the IT/fintech sector, raises new...

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